Perseverance
Patience and perseverance are among the hardest things for children to learn. How can we make pressing on in the face of discouragement interesting to kids? By reading them amazing stories of creativity and resilience!
Rebecca Gibbon
Books about Chickens
Whether a chicken makes you cluck, BAWK! or cheep-cheep-cheep, books about chickens make us laugh. We may not have been introduced to a chicken in real life but, trust me, some people keep them as egg-laying wonders and other people keep them as pets. These fowl have been around in many colors, types, and breeds in most countries in the world … and quite recently they have become the subject of many books.
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With hats off to our friends at the tree-festooned Iowa Arboretum, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chicago Botanic Gardens, and Omaha’s Lauritzen Gardens, this list is dedicated to arborists everywhere, professional and amateur … you take care of an essential part of our ecosystem. Thank you. Here’s a list of books for younger and older children, fiction and nonfiction.
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To get you started on the Bookstorm™ Books …
Alec’s Primer Mildred Pitts Walter
illustrated by Larry Johnson
Vermont Folklife Center, 2005 Based on the true story of Alec Turner (1845−1923), who learned to read as a boy with the help of his owner’s daughter Supplement the story with stories and songs from tape-recorded interviews with Daisy Turner, Alec’s daughter A Carter G.
… more Alec’s Primer Mildred Pitts Walter
illustrated by Larry Johnson
Vermont Folklife Center, 2005 Based on the true story of Alec Turner (1845−1923), who learned to read as a boy with the help of his owner’s daughter Supplement the story with stories and songs from tape-recorded interviews with Daisy Turner, Alec’s daughter A Carter G.